Shirt and trousers support.



J. A. ERWIN.

SHIRT AND TROUSERS SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 23, 1912.

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J. A. ERWIN.

SHIRT AND TROUSERS SUPPORT.

APPLIGATION FILED 1130.22.1912.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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INVENTOR Jarqes Arn' sfrong Erwir ATTORNEYS UNITED srnrns rnrnnr tron JAMES ARMSTRONG ERWIN, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA. SHIRT AND TROUSERS SUPPORT.

1,110,912, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. December 23, 1912. Serial No.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914. 738,198.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs ARMSTRONG ERWIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Shirt and Trousers Support, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved shirt and trouser support, arranged to hold the shirt down and the trousers up without undue strain on the wearers body, at the same time giving the desired comfort and allowing free movement of the arms, shoulders and upper portions of the wearers body.

In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of front and rear straps attached to and depending from the yoke of the shirt at the inside thereof, the lower ends of the straps terminating approximately adjacent the hip portions and being secured to the shirt body, the said terminals and the said shirt body being provided with registering buttonholes for engagement by detachable buttons projecting to the outside of the shirt, and keepers attached to the inner face of the waistband of the trousers and adapted to be engaged by the projecting ends of the said buttons.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference inclicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a front elevation of the shirt and trouser support as applied, part of the shirt body being shown broken out and the trousers being shown partly open; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the shirt as applied, part of the back of the shirt being broken out; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional plan view of the shirt and trouser support on the line 4% of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the shirt on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is an enlarged face View of one of the keepers on the trousers; and Fig. 7 is a similar view of a modified form of the same.

The shirt A is of the usual construction and provided with a body A, sleeves A and a yoke A and to the yoke A are sewed or otherwise fastened the upper ends of front and rear straps B, B and C, C depend ing from the said yoke at the inside of the body A of the shirt B, B and C, C of the front and rear straps B, B and C, G are somewhat widened and are fastened by rows of stitches D and D to the body A of the shirt A so that the straps B, B and C, C are free from the body A intermediate the yoke A and the widened portions 13 and G. The widened portions B and O of the front and rear straps B and O are provided with sets of spaced buttonholes E and extending through the body A of the shirt at the front and rear thereof, and the said buttonholes E and E are adapted to be engaged by detachable buttons F, F similar to collar buttons and extending to the Outside of the shirt to be engaged with keepers G, G secured to the inside of the waistband H of the trousers H so as to support the latter. The keepers G, G are arranged in spaced relation to the corresponding buttons F, F so as to permit of conveniently engaging the outer heads of the buttons with the said keepers to pro Each of the A. The lower ends perly hold up the trousers H. keepers G, G is preferably made from sheet metal or similar sheet material and is provided with two or more retainers G arranged one above the other so as to hold the trousers up more or less according to which of the retainers G is engaged by the corresponding button. For holding the trousers up higher the buttons are engaged with the lower retainers and for lowering the trousers the buttons are engaged with the upper retainers. However, each keeper may be made single, as indicated in Fig. 7.

It is understood that each retainer is provided with an enlarged opening for the passage of the outer head of the button and a narrow passage for the shank of the button to permit of conveniently engaging the corresponding button with or disengaging the same from the corresponding keeper.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the straps B and C form permanent parts of the shirt A, and in using the shirt and the trouser support it is only necessary for the user to insert the buttons F, F in the buttonholes E, E and to engage the outer ends of the said buttons with the corresponding keepers G, G.

It will be noticed that by the arrangement described the shirt A is held down while the trousers are properly supported, and

' between the ends practically the entire weight is sustained from the shoulders owing to the connection of the straps B and C with the yoke A of the shirt A. By having the straps B and C detached from the body A of the shirt of the said straps, it is evident that the shirt especially the bosom or the front thereof hangs properly and is not interfered with in the least by the straps; The shirt and trousers sup-port shown and described is very simple in construction and can be cheaply manufactured.

Having thus described my invention, I clainr as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 1

A shirt comprising a body having a yoke,

front and rear straps permanently secured at their upper ends to the front and rear of Copies of this patent may be obtained'for five cents each, by ad'ditessin'g the Washington, D. C. i v

the yoke at the shoulders, the said freehand rear straps extending which also extend through the shirt body,

all for the purpose described. 1

In testimony whereof I have signed my fasname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES ARMSTRONG newin.

Witnesses I Tnno- Gr. Hosrnn', JOHN P. DAvIs'.

Commissioner of Ifatents, 

